BILL NUMBER: ACR 14	CHAPTERED  08/23/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   80
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   AUGUST 23, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 19, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 30, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gallegos

                        FEBRUARY 16, 1999

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 14--Relative to California
History Week.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 14, Gallegos.  California History Week.
   This measure would designate the Saturday before, to the Sunday
following, September 9th of every year as California History Week
with special emphasis on September 9, Admission Day.




   WHEREAS, California became the thirty-first State in the Union of
the United States of America on September 9, 1850, which became known
as Admission Day; and
   WHEREAS, The Great State of California is as economically strong
as if it were the fourth largest country in the world; and
   WHEREAS, California has such a rich heritage of a multicultural
nature, and Californians desire to preserve this rich history and
multicultural heritage of the Great State of California and its
people; and
   WHEREAS, California has an extensive mission system built by the
Spanish missionaries; and
   WHEREAS, California's state flower, the Poppy, continues to
beautify the hills of our Great State; and
   WHEREAS, Californians want to preserve the geographical diversity
that helps make the Great State so different because it has a sample
of the geography from all over the world; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
Saturday before, to the Sunday following, September 9th of every year
as California History Week with special emphasis on September 9,
Admission Day; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
